Solo exhibitions (selection)

2009
Mako Idemitsu talk and video, Megro City Center, Tokyo (Japan)
Plus que parfait, Yokohama Creative City Center, Kanagawa (Japan)

2007
Arts and Gender, Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi (Japan)

2003
What a Woman Made, Phaidros Cafe, Tokyo (Japan)

2002
Image & Gender The world of Mako Idemitsu, Waseda University, Tokyo (Japan)
Mako Idemitsu Exhibition, Toki Art Space & Image Forum, Tokyo (Japan)

2001
I Create-I Create Myself, Fukuoka City Public Laibrary, Fukuoka (Japan)

2000
I Create-I Create Myself, Kobe Art Village Center, Kobe (Japan) ; Third Gallery Aya, Osaka (Japan)

1997
Nakano Zero Hall, Tokyo (Japan)

1996
Uplink Factory, Tokyo (Japan)

1993
City Museum of Takamatsu, Takamatsu (Japan)
Ekimae Theater, Tokyo (Japan)

1992
Tokyo-to Women Information Center, Tokyo (Japan)

1990
Image Forum, Tokyo (Japan)

1988
From Geisha to Samurai, Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaï (United States)

1986
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)
Video View Points, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y. (United States)
Filmmakers, Pittsburgh, Pa. (United States)

1984
Image Forum, Tokyo (Japan)

1983
Los Angeles Institue of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)

1982
Video Gallery SCAN, Tokyo (Japan)

1980
Gallery Love Collection, Nagoya (Japan)

1979
Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)

1978
Image Forum, Tokyo (Japan)

1977
Shirakaba Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)

1975
Tenjosajiki, Tokyo (Japan)

1974
Nirenoki Gallery, Tokyo (Japan)
Tenjosajiki, Tokyo (Japan)


Group exhibitions (selection)

2010
Counter Space, Design and the Modern Kitchen, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
The Work of eleven Women Artists featured in Modern Women, Single Channel, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y. (United States)

2009
Cinéma du réel, Festival international de films documentaires, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
elles@centrepompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Centre Pompidou, Paris (France)
Here Is Every, Four Decades of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Vital Signals, Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and 70s, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima (Japan)
Houston Center for Photography, Houston, Tex. (United States)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)
Japan Society, New York (United States)

2008
Videoformes, Clermont-Ferrand (France)
Wack ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada)

2007
Wack ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C. (United States)
P.S.1 Contemporary Center, Long Island City, N.Y. (United States)
Vancouver art gallery, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada)

2005
MOT annual, life actually, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (Japan)

2004
Modern Means, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo (Japan)
Borderline Cases, Women on the Borderlines, Galty Library, Culture and Art Center, Kasugai (Japan)
Japan Experimental Film ‘50s-‘70s, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (Japan)
The Early Works of Video Art in Japan, ISEA 2002, Nagoya (Japan)
The 1st Women Make Sister Waves Film & Video Festival, Toyonaka Step Hall, Osaka (Japan)

2001
Film & Video Anthology 2001, 1, Kyoto (Japan)
Osaka Film Festival 2001, J-Ladies, Osaka (Japan)
The 14th Tokyo International Women’s Film Festival, Tokyo Women Plaza, Tokyo (Japan)
B-semi Weekend Session 2001, B-semi Schooling System, Tokyo (Japan)
Chiba City Women Center Festival, Chiba (Japan)

2000
Matsudai Film Festival 2000, Niigata (Japan)
Wan Art 2, Yokohama Women’s Forum, Yokohama (Japan)
Project MAO +, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (Japan)
Good-bye Yotsuya ! The Late of 1970s, Image Forum, Tokyo (Japan)